Edward Legon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Legon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Legon |
| SIGNATURE | LEGON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1904-5909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Conspiracy, Congregation, Company, and Commerce in England, 1680–1688
In 1683, Edward Massey, an obscure office‐holder in Braintree, Essex, provided the state with one of the most explosive accounts of conspiratorial activities in England during the so‐called ‘Exclusion Crisis’. Massey, a prisoner in the King's Bench, named dozens of individuals in his native Essex, as well as the West Country and London, who apparently aired seditious grievances with King Charles II and his Roman Catholic brother and heir, James, …
The wings of Daedalus
This article focuses on English linen drapers – retail and wholesale traders – during Charles II’s reign. These businesspeople became notable proponents of proposals to prohibit French imports of linens into England, but also to settle linen production domestically. Such proposals derived from the context of a Francophobic, anti-Catholic politics of religion which, by the 1670s, had manifested in efforts to ‘defend’ English Protestants from the v…
The Lord Mayor's Show and the Politics of London's Clothworkers’ Company in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
This article uses detail from the records of the Clothworkers’ Company to explore the tensions that lay beneath the surface of the elaborate Lord Mayors’ Shows of Sir John Ireton in 1658 and Sir John Robinson in 1662. Nearly one hundred members of the Company failed to pay their contributions (or ‘fines’) towards the Shows, leading to a shortfall in funding that the Company's Court of Assistants sought to remedy through protracted and expensive i…
Heritage before modernity
This article makes a case for the further exploration of heritage before modernity through an investigation of the afterlife of Merton Priory in Surrey, England. The Augustinian Priory was dissolved in 1538 amid the Henrician Reformation and, thereafter, the site was transformed rapidly into a saleable commodity. As such, the Priory site became an exploitable social and economic resource, especially by textile manufacturers. The article complicat…
Radical Possibilities
Bound up with Meaning
During the Exclusion Crisis (1678–83), political opinion polarized around the issue of who, or indeed what, should succeed Charles II. In addition to the labels “Whigs” and “Tories,” the rapid polarization of politics after 1681 resulted in the adoption of blue and red ribbons distinguishing the two movements. This article focuses on the Whigs’ blue ribbon, arguing that the device created the sense of an “imagined consensus” within the group's va…
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Bound up with Meaning
During the Exclusion Crisis (1678–83), political opinion polarized around the issue of who, or indeed what, should succeed Charles II. In addition to the labels “Whigs” and “Tories,” the rapid polarization of politics after 1681 resulted in the adoption of blue and red ribbons distinguishing the two movements. This article focuses on the Whigs’ blue ribbon, arguing that the device created the sense of an “imagined consensus” within the group's va…
Radical Possibilities
The Lord Mayor's Show and the Politics of London's Clothworkers’ Company in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
This article uses detail from the records of the Clothworkers’ Company to explore the tensions that lay beneath the surface of the elaborate Lord Mayors’ Shows of Sir John Ireton in 1658 and Sir John Robinson in 1662. Nearly one hundred members of the Company failed to pay their contributions (or ‘fines’) towards the Shows, leading to a shortfall in funding that the Company's Court of Assistants sought to remedy through protracted and expensive i…
Heritage before modernity
This article makes a case for the further exploration of heritage before modernity through an investigation of the afterlife of Merton Priory in Surrey, England. The Augustinian Priory was dissolved in 1538 amid the Henrician Reformation and, thereafter, the site was transformed rapidly into a saleable commodity. As such, the Priory site became an exploitable social and economic resource, especially by textile manufacturers. The article complicat…
Conspiracy, Congregation, Company, and Commerce in England, 1680–1688
In 1683, Edward Massey, an obscure office‐holder in Braintree, Essex, provided the state with one of the most explosive accounts of conspiratorial activities in England during the so‐called ‘Exclusion Crisis’. Massey, a prisoner in the King's Bench, named dozens of individuals in his native Essex, as well as the West Country and London, who apparently aired seditious grievances with King Charles II and his Roman Catholic brother and heir, James, …
The wings of Daedalus
This article focuses on English linen drapers – retail and wholesale traders – during Charles II’s reign. These businesspeople became notable proponents of proposals to prohibit French imports of linens into England, but also to settle linen production domestically. Such proposals derived from the context of a Francophobic, anti-Catholic politics of religion which, by the 1670s, had manifested in efforts to ‘defend’ English Protestants from the v…
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